A New Siphonophora, Vogtia kuruae n. sp. 1 
Angeles Alvarino 
The genus Vogtia Kolliker is represented by 
four species: Vogtia pentacantha Kolliker, 
1853; V. spinosa Keferstein and Ehlers, 1861; 
V. serrata (Moser), 1925; and V. glabra Bige- 
low, 1918. 
1 Contribution from Scripps Institution of Oceanog- 
raphy, University of California, San Diego. These 
studies have been conducted under the Marine Life 
Research Program, the Scripps Institution’s com- 
ponent of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fish- 
eries Investigations; and supported by the National 
Science Foundation (NSF G-19417, GB-2861). 
Manuscript received December 14, 1965. 
The most useful diagnostic feature of the 
nectophores of the first three species has been 
described as being angular, prismatic, and pen- 
tagonal (Table 1). The last species, V. glabra , 
has rounded nectophores which are rather sim- 
ilar to those of Hippopodius hip p opus. Bigelow 
and Sears (1937) described the first three spe- 
cies above as "the three angular belled species." 
Actually that characteristic is most conspicuous 
in Vogtia kuruae n. sp. Holotype: usnm Cata- 
logue Number 52609; Paratype: usnm Cata- 
logue Number 52610.) 
[G. 1. Young nectophore of Vogtia kuruae n. sp. 
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